Annual Report 2020

We are not afraid of tension – it makes us inquisitive. Innovation, creativity and development only occur if we cross boundaries and allow ourselves tensions. The digital transformation shifts boundaries or makes them disappear. Understanding tensions between realities is a prerequisite for our innovations and our success.

PERSPECTIVES AND DREAMS

Space travel shifts and overcomes boundaries including, in particular, the tensions caused by national and cultural borders. Why do things that often appear difficult on Earth function better in space?

SMALLEST PARTICLES – GREATEST PRECISION

A new dimension in measurement technology: SICK develops the world’s first industrial quantum optical sensor in cooperation with Q.ANT (a wholly-owned subsidiary of TRUMPF).

ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY

A sustainable environmental policy does not lead to economic disadvantage, but stimulates the development of new technologies. Or old means of transport could become important again.

FILLING LEVEL MONITORING

A new digital solution especially for packaging machines enables the aggregation of sensor data beyond plants and production lines, and includes a notification service. This makes life easier for users.

FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTED DANGER AVOIDED

Our mobility is in turmoil – e-vehicles are gaining in importance. This also affects the industry: Carmakers must establish new, highly automated production processes.

ORIGINAL AND IMITATION?

Are analog and digital opposites? Observations by Frank Blöhbaum and Axel Jahn expose an interesting conflict. Decisions must be made, above all at the interface between analog and digital – the frontend.

EDGY MULTI-TALENTS

Individual modular analysis containers: Highly sensitive measurement technology is often used in particularly harsh environments. SICK has come up with a clever way to protect devices and ensure that they operate reliably: Shelter solutions.

UPHOLDING VALUES, SHAPING THE FUTURE

A company with a long history and modern methods of collaboration need not work within any fields of tension – quite the opposite. Personnel Manager Cornelia Reinecke uses this interview to explain how SICK brings these apparent contradictions together.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT MEETS AGILITY

Teams require a certain level of maturity to work effectively and efficiently with agility. The employees in the Safety Machine Analytics project have gained this maturity – with some effort – and have even achieved pioneering work in the company.

AT A GLANCE

SUSTAINABILITY AT SICK

This Annual Report contains a detailed Sustainability Report for the first time. Protecting the environment and people, securing stable jobs through long-term economic success, and contributing to society: This has been SICK’s understanding of sustainability since the company was founded 75 years ago. As a family-owned company, sustainability has a long tradition, is a matter of course, and an integral part of our corporate philosophy.

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